Isocrates

Isocrates

male
Rhetorician, Sophist, Peloponnesian War, logographer, Attic orators
Isocrates, Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. In his time, he was probably the most influential rhetorician in Greece and made...
Protagoras

Protagoras

male
agnostic, Abdera, Thrace, pre-Socratic, Pre-Socratic philosophy, craters of the Moon named after them, relativism…Rhetorician
Protagoras (Greek:) (ca. 490- 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue...
Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke

male, deceased (1993)
Rhetoric theorist, American, philosopher, Literary critic, philosophy, Rhetorician
Kenneth Burke (May 5 1897-November 19 1993) was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and...
Gorgias

Gorgias

male
ancient greek, Sophism, Leontini, Attica, Attic Greek, pre-Socratic…Rhetorician
Gorgias, Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first...
Petrarch

Petrarch

male, deceased (1374)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Sonneteers, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, Latin writer…Rhetorician
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarcha) (July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early Renaissance humanist. Petrarch is often...
Tacitus

Tacitus

male, deceased (117)
senator, Silver Age Latin author, Latin writer, annalist, historiographical, Historiography…Rhetorician
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 - ca. 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major...
Apuleius

Apuleius

male, deceased (180)
Lucius Apuleius Platonicus, Classical Latin novelist, Silver Age Latin author, Numidia, ancient roman, roman empire…Rhetorician
Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. AD 123/125-c. AD 180), an utterly Romanized Berber who described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian", is...
Libanius

Libanius

male, deceased (394)
writer, Roman-era Greek, Sophist, Rhetorician, roman empire, Late Antique writer
Libanius was a Greek-speaking teacher of rhetoric of the later Roman Empire, an educated pagan of the Sophist school in an Empire that was turning...
Quintilian

Quintilian

male, deceased (100)
Rhetoric theorist, Silver Age Latin author, Middle Ages, Literary theorist, hispania, Literary theory…Rhetorician
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (ca. 35-ca. 100) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in...
Aeschines

Aeschines

male
Timarchos, Ancient Greek statesmen, ancient greek, Battle of Mantinea, Megalopolis, ruler…Rhetorician
Aeschines (in Greek, 389-314 BC), Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators, was born at Athens. The statements as to his parentage and...